The Jungle Socialism
.... house, he experienced the horrendous conditions which laborers encountered. Along with these nightmarish working conditions, they worked for nominal wages, inflexible and long hours, in an atmosphere where worker safety had no persuasion. Early on, there was no one for these immigrants to turn to, so many suffered immensely. Jurgis would later learn of worker unions and other groups to support the labor force, but the early years of his Americanized life were filled, with sliced fingers, unemployment and .....
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The Key To Greatness (great Ga
.... would go out and show off his girl. "Tom's got some woman in New York. . . She might have the decency not to telephone him at dinner time. Don't you think?"(Fitzgerald 16). Everyone knew about Tom's woman, including Daisy. Daisy would not let he feelings about the situation show through to Tom. Tom and Myrtle's love would soon bring Myrtle to her own death. Myrtle thought she saw Tom and was hit by a car as she ran into the street to flag him down. The car that hit Myrtle was being driven by D .....
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The Man In The Iron Mask
.... The cardinal finds out that the queen has given the duke of Buckingham the diamond tags, he asks the king to give a ball and demand her to wear the gift he gave her, the twelve diamond tags. Milady is ordered by the cardinal to steal 2 diamond tags, from the 12, and use it as blackmail. Immediately, the three musketeers and d’Artagnan go to London to help the queen. When d’Artagnan gets there, without the musketeers because they stayed behind fighting the cardinal’s spies, Buckin .....
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The Minister Black Veil
.... In the story, Father Hooper says that everyone wears a black veil, meaning that everyone commits secret sins without revealing them to anyone. If you do not express your secret sin you would be keeping stress and tension locked up inside you, but if you express it, the stress and tension will be relieved.
Another reason behind the veil might be sorrow. Deep, dark sorrow for someone or yourself might be expressed and shown with the help of a black veil. By wearing the black veil for e .....
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The Oddysey
.... Back on the island of Ithaca Odysseus awoke. He awoke to meet Athena disguised as a shepherd boy. Odysseus asked the boy where he was because he currently has no idea, he thought the Phaecians did not bring him to his desired destination. The boy tells him Ithaca. In response to this, Odysseus created an extensive lie about who he is in front of Athena. Athena then scolded him for this. The Goddess then told Odysseus that Telemachus is with Menelaus searching for answers and tales of his fathe .....
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The Odyssey - Comparing The Ro
.... characters that add an intangible mystery.
In “Rustler’s Rhapsody”, Miss Tracy and the C.B.’s daughter are the only female characters. They both portray the stereotype of incipit debutantes who are instantly attracted to the handsome hero. The C.B.’s daughter is an inept character who gets dragged across the desert by her horse “Wildfire”, only to be saved by Rex O’ Herolan. In that particular scene, she attempts to seduce Rex by flirting and engagi .....
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The Odyssey 2
.... this new information Polyphemus prays to his father Poseidon to have Odysseus and his men punished. Having angered Poseidon,
they must wander throughout the sea slowly dying one by one. Odysseus learns that bragging can have ill effects and uses this knowledge on the island of
the Phaecians and Ithaca when he does not openly boast of his deeds and his journeys.
Odysseus also learns to pay close attention to the instructions of the gods,
or he might have to face a terrible price. When Odysseu .....
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The Old Gringo, By Carlos Fuen
.... in love with John Smith, the man with the different culture as her as well. In both of these situations, we see the different desires for one woman made by two men.
The Old Gringo takes place in the early 1910’s in Mexico. The setting of this novel had major influences on the characters, the plot, and the themes of this story. Each character had different ideas on what Mexico meant to them. For Tomas Arroyo, Mexico was his home, a place he could never leave. The old gringo thought of Mexico .....
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The Parable
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Hernando what she had to do to get across the river. When she tells Hernando, he is very hurt and upset. He calls the wedding off and "banishes Rosemary as a soiled woman" (The Parable). Rosemary is very distraught over this and turns to John (an acquaintance) for a little comfort. After hearing her story John says to Rosemary that even though he does not love her, he will marry her. With this, the story comes to an end.
There are two characters in the story, The Parable, that I approve .....
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The Black Cat Literary Critici
.... enemy which is trying to destroy him. Therefore the story is filled with violence; the things narrator did to the cat were I would say inhuman. No--at least I think-- normal human being would caught his own loved cat and cut his eye out. At this point reader can clearly see that narrator has some mental problems. But once again the story surprises us by shocking act of the narrator. In cold blood he takes his cat hung him on a tree.
The resolution to the conflict is very simple. Since the character .....
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The Chrysanthemums 2
.... a person’s emotional needs. The stranger is described as big, bearded, and graying man, who knows something about life and people. A man with a captivating presence whose eyes are dark and “full of brooding.”
Elisa is fascinated by his spontaneous way of life. When she tries to get him to discuss his travels, he steers back to the possibility of employment. When it is apparent that she has no work to give him, he cleverly praises her flowers. Elisa is desperately eager to share in .....
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The Perfect Storm
.... Stimpson, and Bylander are strong and capable of taking care of themselves.
The book is littered with explanations about fishing. I admit that I frequently got lost in these passages but it was worth it. This knowledge is an integral element of the story. When a component of the boat malfunctions, readers know the significance of this to the sailors. Without this, the book would have provided a message that only other sailors can understand. Junger, by supplying this information, wants to make .....
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The Picture Of Dorian Gray
.... begins painting the picture, but does not tell anyone about it, including Dorian, because he knows that there is too much of himself in it. Lord Henry discovers the painting and asks Basil why he will not display it. Lord Henry thinks that it is so beautiful it should be displayed in a museum. Basil argues that the reason he will not display the painting is because he is "afraid that [he] has shown in it the secret of his soul" (Wilde 23). This is another paradox because he has not only shown the secret o .....
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The Plague
.... is a journalist, who finds himself trapped in the city of Oran. The women he loves lives beyond the walls of the city, and rather than remaining with the others, he believes himself to be an outsider, and tries to flee the city by any means. At one point, he tells Tarrou, “ I don’t believe in heroism…What interests me is living for what one loves.”5 Later, when speaking with Rieux, Rambert concludes that he is no longer an individual, and that he is part of the town. He realiz .....
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The Prince
.... with Emperor Maximilian II, who was preparing his invasion of Italy. The Florentine militia fought at the capture of Pisa in 1509. Machiavelli went on his last mission to France in 1510. Pope Julius II allied himself with Spain and Venice, together they conquered France, the Florentine's ally. Then in 1512, the Spanish army invaded Florence and defeated the Florentine militia. The Medici family returned to power and deponed Machiavelli from his station. The Medici family accused Machiavelli of participati .....
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